College to close for federal holiday

The OCCC campus will be closed Monday, Jan. 21 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The holiday occurs on the third Monday in January, and closely corresponds with King’s Jan. 15 birthday. It was signed into recognition as a federal holiday by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, with first observation being Jan. 20, 1986.

The first time all 50 states recognized the holiday was in January of 2000.